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most citedThe clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

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cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 113 cited

Plasmonic Nanostars with Hot Spots for Efficient Generation of Hot Electrons under Solar Illumination

Xiang-Tian Kong, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O. Govorov

Nanostars (NSTs) are spiky nanocrystals with plasmonic hot spots. In this study, we show that strong electromagnetic fields localized in the nanostar tips are able to generate larg…

hep-ex2016★ 3 cited

Angular decay coefficients of mesons at forward rapidity from collisions at GeV

A. Adare, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand +387

We report the first measurement of the full angular distribution for inclusive decays in collisions at GeV. The measurements are…

nucl-ex2016★ 33 cited

Low-energy enhancement and fluctuations of -ray strength functions in Fe: test of the Brink-Axel hypothesis

A. C. Larsen, M. Guttormsen, N. Blasi +21

Nuclear level densities and -ray strength functions of Fe have been extracted from proton- coincidences. A low-energy enhancement in the -ray strength functions…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 17 cited

Symmetries and hybridization in the indirect interaction between magnetic moments in MoS nanoflakes

Oscar Ávalos-Ovando, Diego Mastrogiuseppe, Sergio E. Ulloa

We study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction between magnetic impurities embedded in -doped transition metal dichalcogenide triangular flakes. The role of underlying s…

nucl-th2016★ 13 cited

NeutronC scattering: emergence of universal properties in a finite range potential

M. A. Shalchi, M. T. Yamashita, M. R. Hadizadeh +2

The low-energy properties of the elastic wave scattering for the C are studied near the critical condition for the occurrence of an excited Efimov state in …

astro-ph.GA2016★ 104 cited

Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project VI: reverberating Disk Models for NGC 5548

D. Starkey, Keith Horne, M. M. Fausnaugh +90

We conduct a multiwavelength continuum variability study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 to investigate the temperature structure of its accretion disk. The 19 overlapping continu…

physics.ins-det2016★ 9 cited

-particle energy-summing correction for -delayed proton emission measurements

Z. Meisel, M. del Santo, H. L. Crawford +6

A common approach to studying -delayed proton emission is to measure the energy of the emitted proton and corresponding nuclear recoil in a double-sided silicon-strip detector (…

nucl-th2016★ 5 cited

Separable Representation of Multichannel Nucleon-Nucleus Optical Potentials

Linda Hlophe, Charlotte Elster

One important ingredient for many applications of nuclear physics to astrophysics, nuclear energy, and stockpile stewardship are cross sections for reactions of neutrons with rare…

nucl-ex2016★ 9 cited

Target and beam-target spin asymmetries in exclusive pion electroproduction for GeV. II.

P. E. Bosted, A. Kim, K. P. Adhikari +152

Beam-target double-spin asymmetries and target single-spin asymmetries were measured for the exclusive electroproduction reaction , expanding an analysis of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 17 cited

Band-gap switching and scaling of nanoperforated graphene

Haiyuan Chen, Xiaobin Niu

In this paper, a framework of {w_1, w_2, R} classification for constructing the graphene nanomesh (GNM) of zigzag-edged hexagonal nanohole is systematically built. The three intege…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 9 cited

Concurrent growth and formation of electrically contacted monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides on bulk metallic patterns

Sudiksha Khadka, Miles Lindquist, Shrouq Aleithan +4

While new species and properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials are being reported with extraordinary regularity, a significant bottleneck in the field is the ability to control…

nucl-th2016★ 1 cited

Universality in the neutronC scattering using finite range separable interactions

M. A. Shalchi, M. T. Yamashita, M. R. Hadizadeh +2

We report a study on the low-energy properties of the elastic wave scattering of a neutron () in the carbon isotope C near the critical condition for the occurrence o…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 54 cited

Measuring the Properties of Dark Energy with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. I. Systematic Uncertainty from Core-Collapse Supernova Contamination

D. O. Jones, D. M. Scolnic, A. G. Riess +18

The Pan-STARRS (PS1) Medium Deep Survey discovered over 5,000 likely supernovae (SNe) but obtained spectral classifications for just 10% of its SN candidates. We measured spectrosc…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 78 cited

An ultraviolet excess in the superluminous supernova Gaia16apd reveals a powerful central engine

M. Nicholl, E. Berger, R. Margutti +5

Since the discovery of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) in the last decade, it has been known that these events exhibit bluer spectral energy distributions than other supernova sub…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 140 cited

Tuning the pseudospin polarization of graphene by a pseudo-magnetic field

Alexander Georgi, Peter Nemes-Incze, Ramon Carrillo-Bastos +16

One of the intriguing characteristics of honeycomb lattices is the appearance of a pseudo-magnetic field as a result of mechanical deformation. In the case of graphene, the Landau…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 10 cited

Theoretical Study Of The Effects Of Magnetic Field Geometry On The High-Energy Emission Of Blazars

Manasvita Joshi, Alan P. Marscher, Markus Boettcher

The knowledge of the structure of the magnetic field inside a blazar jet, as deduced from polarization observations at radio to optical wavelengths, is closely related to the forma…

nucl-ex2016★ 6 cited

Beam-target double spin asymmetry in quasi-elastic electron scattering off the deuteron with CLAS

Michael Mayer, Sebastian E. Kuhn, the CLAS Collaboration

Quasi-elastic electron scattering on the deuteron is a benchmark reaction to test our understanding of deuteron structure and the properties and interactions of the two nucleons bo…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

X-rays from the location of the Bactrian Transient ASASSN-15lh

R. Margutti, B. D. Metzger, R. Chornock +13

We present the detection of persistent soft X-ray radiation with L_x ~ 10^41-10^42 erg/s at the location of the extremely luminous, double-humped transient ASASSN-15lh as revealed…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 46 cited

After the Fall: Late-Time Spectroscopy of Type IIP Supernovae

Jeffrey M. Silverman, Stephanie Pickett, J. Craig Wheeler +11

Herein we analyse late-time (post-plateau; 103 < t < 1229 d) optical spectra of low-redshift (z < 0.016), hydrogen-rich Type IIP supernovae (SNe IIP). Our newly constructed sample…

physics.ins-det2016★ 16 cited

A novel comparison of Møller and Compton electron-beam polarimeters

J. A. Magee, A. Narayan, D. Jones +38

We have performed a novel comparison between electron-beam polarimeters based on Møller and Compton scattering. A sequence of electron-beam polarization measurements were performed…

math.OA2016★ 210 cited

Boundary representations of operator spaces, and compact rectangular matrix convex sets

Adam H. Fuller, Michael Hartz, Martino Lupini

We initiate the study of matrix convexity for operator spaces. We define the notion of compact rectangular matrix convex set, and prove the natural analogs of the Krein-Milman and…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 87 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: theoretical systematics and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the galaxy correlation function

Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Shirley Ho, Antonio J. Cuesta +18

We investigate the potential sources of theoretical systematics in the anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance scale measurements from the clustering of galaxies in…

nucl-th2016★ 13 cited

Permanent Electric Dipole Moments of Single-, Two-, and Three-Nucleon Systems

Andreas Wirzba, Jan Bsaisou, Andreas Nogga

A nonzero electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron, proton, deuteron or helion, in fact, of any finite system necessarily involves the breaking of a symmetry, either by the pres…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 15 cited

Ab initio model of amorphous zinc oxide (a-ZnO) and a-X_0.375 Z_0.625 O (X=Al, Ga and In)

Anup Pandey, Heath Scherich, D. A. Drabold

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are carried out to study the structure and electronic structure of amorphous zinc oxide (a-ZnO). The models were prepared by the "melt-…